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In late April, when Mike Massaro set out to get $40 million to $75 million in funding for his payments start-up, Flywire, he contacted a small group of investors he already knew. But word quickly got around, and other investors flooded his inbox with $200 million of investment offers, half of which …

Dreamy business offerings all have huge potential.<p><b>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said a "dreamy" business offering has at least four characteristics.</b>• <b><br>"Customers love it, it can grow to very large size, it has strong returns on capital, and it's durable in time," Bezos said in his 2014 letter to Amazon</b> …

Selling stolen personal data is a big business for hackers: Somewhere on the dark web, your e-mail address and a few passwords are probably for sale (hopefully, old ones). Cyber criminals buy troves of this information to try to login to websites where they can grab something valuable like cash, …

A glass of blue chardonnay with your meal? Well, it's certainly something different!<p>The Spanish wine starts off white but is passed through red grape pulp which naturally turns the colour to turquoise.<p>The Mediterranean's restaurants and beach bars in Sete have so far drunk through 2,000 bottles of …

Electric scooter startup Bird is the fastest company to reach a valuation of $1 billion.<p>Bird, one of many scooter startups currently sweeping the US, was last valued at $400 million after closing $100 million in series B funding in early March. In late May, Bird was reported to be raising $150 …

Think of it as a digital doctor.<p>Drugstore giant CVS Health plans to offer a nationwide service to treat easy-to-diagnose maladies and other medical issues via its smartphone app.<p>The telemedicine service will be offered for diagnosis of conditions such as colds and flu, skin issues and general …

This mid-century modern in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood was designed by Mark Mills, who after an apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd went on to work on Eichlers as well as a plethora of his own designs.<p>For $950, 000, you could be the next owner of this piece of Bay Area architectural history.<p><b>The</b> …

An internal memo obtained by BuzzFeed shows how a group of Facebook staffers became "obsessed" with finding ways to attract high schoolers to a new product — and landed on a "psychological trick" that worked.<p>The note was put together by executives at tbh, the once-popular viral polling app that was …

Who are the leading angel investors startup entrepreneurs should be pitching right now? How do you connect with them?<p>Effective fundraising for startups isn’t about how many people and firms you can blast your opportunity out to. It’s about getting in front of the right investors, with a strong …